BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE AT FIVE-- AT LEAST TWO ARE DEAD INSIDE AN OMAHA INDUSTRIAL PLANT. WE'RE THERE WITH THE LOVED ONES, GETTING SUPPORT AS THEY WAIT-- AND WORRY. WE'RE TALKING WITH THE WORKERS WHO ESCAPED.(jamar White worker: I just heard a crack pop and big ball of fire, and I just took off running when I heard the first crack, that's all I could do was get out of the way and make sure I was okay. ) AND RIGHT NOW-- AN URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM IS AT WORK-- TRYING TO REACH THOSE WHO DID NOT SURVIVE. AND THEIR FAMILIES WAIT FOR THAT TERRIBLE NEWS TO COME.(the chance of finding vicitims who are alive is no longer there) AND FROM THE AIR-- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO SHOWS YOU ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE OF THE FORCE-- AND SCOPE OF THE DAMAGE. THE ROOF-- AND SHEET METAL SIDING RIPPED AWAY FROM THE STRUCTURE. THE CHIEF SAYS THE COLLAPSE IS SUBSTANTIAL.. AND THE WORK SITE-- DANGEROUS. OMAHA FIREFIGHTERS CONFIRM THE OPERATION IS NOW A 'RECOVERY' EFFORT. I'M ADRIAN WHITSETT. AND I'M BRANDI PETERSEN.. MELISSA FRY JOINS US LIVE IN A MOMENT. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE OF THIS MORNING'S INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTAT 'INTERNATIONAL TRUTION-- NEAR 76TH AND 'I' PLAZA. THEY MAKE ANIMAL SUPPLEMENTS AND FOOD PRODUCTS. TEN WORKERS WENT TO THE HOSPITAL-- FOUR ARE CRITICALLY HURT. AND IT'S NOT CLEAR HOW MANY HAVE DIED. FIREFIGHTERS SAY 38 PEOPLE WERE INSIDE THE PLANT WHEN SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG AT TEN O'CLOCK. BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE MANY ANSWERS RIGHT NOW. MORE ON THE INVESTIGATION IN MOMENTS. OUR LIVE TEAM COVERAGE BEGINS WITH CONCERNS OF WORKERS FAMILY AND FRIENDS K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S AMANDA CRAWFORD IS LIVE. I was with them while they waited. Sot: it's more anxiety. I want to see my dad and hold him.AN EMOTIONAL LONG WAIT MONDAY MORNING. sot: I got here as fast as I could to make sure he's ok. THEY RUSHED TO THE SCENE TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES. AN EXPLOSION AT INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION. FOR AWHILE--NO WORD FROM LOVED ONES INSIDE. THEN--THE MESSAGES THEYD BEEN WAITING FOR.sot: he's ok. Goin to hospital but ok.Sot: dad called and I was shopping and I threw down everything I had and sped here.What did he say? He said there's an explosion at work. The building collapse. I'm ok but two of my coworkers are missing. OMAHA'S INTERIM FIRE CHIEF SAYS FLATLY THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THOSE STILL INSIDE THE INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION PLANT. OUR TEAM COVERAGE HAS MORE ON THE INITIAL INVESTIGATION. K-E-T-V- NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S KYLE GRAVLIN JOINS US LIVE.Significant damage to International Nutrition earlier today...the video tells the story.Fire crews were originally responding to a fire call with the possibility of people trapped in the building.Fire Chief Bernard Kanger now officially calling this an "industrial accident that resulted in a structure fire...as well as significant structure collapse. Then...sobering statements from Kanger at this afternoon's press conference. Among them ", the message of multiple fatalities...followed by this...( chief kanger:...the chance of finding victims that are alive is no longer there.and now it is a recovery mode where are efforts are to secure the building go in and retreive the victims and search for additional victims that may be in the structure" ) Still multiple crews on scene at this point. We know that along with 50 OFD firefighters....ATF, the NE STATE FIRE marshals office, OSHA, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, OPD, DoCo Emergemcy Management Agency...as well as members of Mayor Jean Stotherts office. HAS THE INTERIM CHIEF SAID WHAT CAUSED THIS COLLAPSE? kyle gravlin reporting live. Thanks THE URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM BASED IN LINCOLN STARTED MOBILIZING MINUTES AFTER THE FIRST CALL FOR HELP. NEBRASKA TASK FORCE ONE IS ON SITE RIGHT NOW.. GOING THROUGH THAT DANGEROUS, DAMAGED PLANT. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S DAVE ROBERTS JOINS US WITH MORE LIVE COVERAGE.The sense of urgency really has died down here since the rescue operation became a recovery operation. Nebraska task force one deployed out of Lincoln this morning.They were initially called in to rescue four people trapped underneath the rubble.We're now being told that there's no one to rescue but possibly the bodies of two people need to recovered. It took some time for nebraska task force one to leave this morning. The Martin Luther King holiday slowed the federal authority needed for it to officially activate. Once they did the team arrived in Omaha around 245 this afternoon.Structural engineers in Omaha already started to examine the building this morning.Now this afternoon the structural engineers are reassessing The stability as the wind picks up. The team requested special equipment everything from microphones to search for survivors to dogs even heavy lifting equipment to move steel and concrete. They will not go inside until they know it safe(Is a big element of danger with it we have a structural engineer assess the situation see if we can work around the structure) THE TEN PEOPLE INJURED WENT TO FOUR DIFFERENT HOSPITALS. AGAIN FOUR WORKERS ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION. K-E-T-V- NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S MELISSA FRY IS LIVE AT THE NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER. TWO OF THE PATIENTS HERE AT NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER ARE SET TO BE RELEASED THIS AFTERNOON. TWO OTHER PATIENTS ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION ONE OF THEM IS CURRENTLY IN THE ICU. WE WERE HERE AS AN OMAHA FIREFIGHTER WAS ALSO TREATED AND RELEASED FROM NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER. I SAW THIS FIREFIGHTER HAD HIS HAND WRAPPED IN BANDAGES, ASSUMING HE IS THE FIREFIGHTER ON SCENE THAT SUSTAINED INJURIES TO THEIR HAND.SO ALONG WITH THE FIREFIGHTER, FOUR PATIENTS TAKEN HERE TO THE NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER, THREE PATIENTS TO ALLEGENT CREIGHTON, AND TWO OTHER PATIENTS TO BERGAN. TRAUMA MEDICAL DIRECTOR DR. PJ. SCHENARTZ TELLS ME IT IS CRUCIAL FOR ALL HOSPITALS IN THE AREA TO PREPARE UNDER A MASS CASUALTY SITUATION - CALLING IN EXTRA STAFF AS THEY DID HERE AND AT ALEGENT CREIGHTON. HERE'S DR. DR KEITH CLANCY.(Dr. Keith Clancy: "we saw burns, two patients had burns on their hands, one also had burns on their face, they were the first two that were brought into us. The other patient that came in was actually I think crushed under some of the falling debris, he has rib fractures and a collapsed lung and obviously is in a significant amount of pain.") AND WE JUST RECEIVED AN UDPATE FROM ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH. IT SAYS ONE PATIENT THERE IS UPGRADED TO SERIES CONDITION.. TWO OTHERS WERE MOVED TO SAINT ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTER IN LINCOLN FOR BURNS. BERGAN MERCY HAS ONE PERSON HOSPITALIZED-- AND IT TREATED AND RELEASED 2 OTHERS. AGAIN AT THE TIME, MEDICS DID NOT KNOW OF ANY CONFIRMED FATALITIES, BUT PREPARING FOR A MASS CASUALTY EVENT IS CRUCIAL. WE WILL STAY ON SCENE TO BRING YOU THE LATEST OF ANY CONDITION OF THE FOUR PATIENTS HERE NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER BACK TO YOU. MELISSA -- HOW IS IT THAT HOSPITALS PREPARE FOR AN EMERGENCY LIKE THIS. THANKS MELISSA WE'VE ALSO BEEN HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO SAW WHAT HAPPENED. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S TONY CORNETT IS LIVE WITH THAT. WE'RE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION FACILITY WHERE WE'VE BEEN ALL DAY SHOWING YOU THE DESTRUCTION. WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINTS WHERE WE RAN INTO PEOPLE WHO WERE AWFULLY CLOSE TO THE DESTRUCTION AT THE TIME IT HAPPENED THIS MORNING... FIRST, TAKE NOTE OF THAT TRUCK YOU SEE THERE... PINNED UNDER SOME OF THE FALLEN DEBRIS... WE TALKED TO THE MAN WHO WAS SITTING IN THE CAB OF THAT TRUCK WHEN THE EXPLOSION HAPPENED AND ANOTHER MAN WHO SAW IT FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FACILITY...(Larry McElhinney, Witnessed destruction, "Sitting in the truck there doing a puzzle and start hearing things hitting the top of the cab, just real small stuff and all of a sudden there's a bunch of dust, and I seen a bunch of guys running, and that's when I go out of the truck. Where in that sequence did you hear an explosion? I neaver heard one. Really? I never heard one, but they said on the other side of the building, they heard a little boom, but I never heard nothing.")(Chris Osborne, Witnessed Destruction, "It was about ten o'clock this morning, we were coming back from filling up one of our trucks at one of the companies we go through and we pulled in and there's a small cloud of smoke. All of us just thought it was a routine thing going on. We saw the cop cars, fire trucks and everything. And we were pulling stuff out of one of the back of our trucks, and one of my coworkers went to go get our forklift and I turned around and I saw the grain elevator actually tilted sideways and flames coming out.") THAT EXPLOSION SOUND SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN HEARD BY SOME BUT NOT ALL... I TALKED TO SOME PASSERSBY HERE ON THE PAPIO BEHIND US, AND THEY SAID THEY HAVE FAMILY IN RALSTON WHO HEARD THE EXPLSION AS A SHARP POP... THAT'S MORE THAN A MILE AWAY ... AND THE TRUCK DRIVER RIGHT HERE DIDN'T HEAR IT AT ALL. AND WE DO KNOW THAT WAREHOUSE WORKERS AT THE KENWORTH FACILITY JUST A FEW HUNDRED YARDS FROM HERE DEFINITELY HEARD THE EXPLOSION... AS YOU CAN SEE, THE VIEW OF THE DAMAGE HERE ON THE WEST SIDE OF INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION SHOWS MAJOR DAMAGE... BACK TO YOU... DOZENS WAITED FOR HORUS TO HEAR FROM THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS INSIDE THE PLANT. HERE'S K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S CHINH DOAN. ---------------------- ------ ---------------- ------------ --------- THE PARKING LOT OF INTERNATIONAL PAPER AT 76TH AND F HERE HAS BEEN A GATHERING PLACE FOR FAMILIES WAITING TO HEAR FROM THEIR LOVED ONES. AND WHILE THEY WAIT VOLUNTEERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS MADE SURE THEY HAD EVERYTHING THEY NEED. WE WERE THERE AS SALVATION ARMY DISASTER RELIEF SHOWED UP PASSING OUT FOOD AND DRINKS. OMAHA POLICE CHAPLAINS WERE ALSO HERE TO COMFORT FAMILIES. THEY ALL SAY SUPPORT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN THESE TYPE OF SITUATIONS.(JJ Kuzma: They're sitting in there waiting for word on their loved one and we're there just to say hey if you need something to drink if you need something to eat and then we're working with the chaplains in case there's something that we can provide) ( Mendel katzman: this will be one of those cases where there's a lot of unknown there's a lot of need for prayer and clarity and support ) VOLUNTEERS HERE TELL US THEY WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THESE FAMILIES AND PROVIDE THEM ANY KID OF HELP THEY CAN POSSIBLY GIVE THEM. REPORTING NEAR 76TH AND F CHINH DOAN KETV NW7 WE DID SOME DIGGING AND FOUND RECORD OF VIOLATIONS AT THE BUILDING. AT AN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INSPECTION TWO YEARS AGO -- INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION RECEIVED FINES FOR SIX "SERIOUS VIOLATIONS." RANGING FROM FIRST AID TO GUARDS AGAINST FLYING CHIPS AND SPARKS. OSHA REPORTS SHOW THE CASE WAS CLOSED IN MAY OF 2012. THERE IS NO RECORD IF INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION HAS BEEN INSPECTED SINCE. OMAHA'S OSHA OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY .. BUT INTERIM CHIEF KANGER SAID A REPRESENTATIVE IS AT THE SCENE. NOW.. MORE PERSPECTIVE ON THE EXTENT OF DAMAGE AT THE PLANT. HERE'S A PHOTO OF INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION FROM GOOGLE EARTH.. TAKE BEFORE 10 A-M THIS MORNING. HERE'S THE PLANT AT 10-25 A-M... THIS PHOTO TAKEN BY OMAHA POLICE. THE BUILDING, A TANGLED MESS.. DARK SMOKE RISING INTO THE SKY. OMAHA FIRE PLANS TO UPDATE US THIS EVENING AT AN EIGHT O'CLOCK NEWS CONFERENCE. WE'LL HAVE IT FOR YOU LIVE. INCLUDING ON K-E-T-V DOT COM-- WHERE WE have MORE COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE THIS INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT. WE'RE UPDATING THE INFORMATION AS IT COMES IN.

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